Ajuga reptans 39black scallop39 is a beautiful variety of bugle with violet blue flower45spikes appearing from late spring ideal groundcover this dark leaved perennial has a dense matt of glossy liquorice45black foliage and is more sun tolerant than many cultivars with the foliage becoming blackest when grown in full sun bugle is also a robust and reliable evergreen that copes with almost any soil condition particularly effective at the front of the border rockeries or wildli